Thank you all for the birthday wishes!! And ghastly decorations!
I did enjoy my day-the wee ones cleaned up, made breakfast in bed (I got to sleep in till 10:00!) and did their very best not to squabble with each other. The hubby took me out for the evening.

I miss 33 'cause 3 is my favorite number but I love the thirties!!

Thanks again for the greetings

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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Hmmm..... I don't say all those words the same way. Do you?

I think the words "happy", "fat" and "and" have the same 'a' in them anyhow and that's the Finnish 'š' as a phoneme, whatever dialect one speaks in English (the word "dance" is bit harder as it surely has different ways of being pronounced). Or then you people spell things much more variedly I've ever imagined... which might be true as well.

__________________Upon the hearth the fire is red
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet...

Well as a matter of fact, Brits and Americans speak these particular words very differently. It would be hard for me to describe it without merely causing confusion by means of examples that don't hold any better than the words we're talking about themselves! (I hope that made sense )

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Thank you very much, guys! Paljon kiitoksia synttšrionnitteluista!

As you can see from Hookbill's lovely photograph, the celebration was positively riotous indeed. Unfortunately Frodo passed out at some point, but Sam and I had a ball.

ps. Kiitos kutsusta, palataan asiaan.

pps. As to the Finnish š-sound, you can check the pronunciation by typing the words 'happy' and 'dad' into The Free Dictionary and listening to the sound files about how they have pronounced them to hear the difference between 'š' and 'šš', respectively.